Cinema: Also Showing

Truce or no truce, Hollywood is still fighting a rearguard action in Korea.

Sabre Jet (United Artists) is a picture dedicated to explaining the importance of sex to the American air effort in Korea. Pilots' wives were in some cases permitted to join their husbands in Japan, and according to this script, it was the thought of the little woman waiting at the gate of the air base after every mission that kept the boys flying. Except for a few routine shots of some gleaming Sabres, the film is devoted to a lot of thick talk about getting to bed early and...

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